Greg Neverov (of active patterns fame) has placed an implementation of Software Transactional Memory for F# up on hubFS . Here's the description:
I have written a library for using software transactional memory in F#. The library exposes memory...

I'm pleased to announce that the first candidate release of F# 1.1 is now available from the Microsoft Research downloads page. This is build 1.1.0.4. We hope you enjoy it! A big thanks to James , who has been working very hard on this, and also Stephen...

I can't believe I missed posting about this - F# for Scientists is now out!
I haven't got my hardcopy just yet, but I read a draft of this book, and was really very impressed. The 3D visualization chapter is stunning in its simplicity and power, the...

I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft Research have published a new technical report related to F# 3.0 called Strongly-Typed Language Support for Internet-Scale Information Sources , (or go straight to the PDF ).
To reference this work, please...

There is a very nice online book called "The F# Survival Guide", previously hosted at ctocorner.com. Unfortunately, for some reason that site is no longer available. Several F# community members have tried to work out why, but so far to no avail.
In...

A couple of weeks ago saw the release of the CTP of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework ( download ), This is one the major technologies currently under development at Microsoft for parallel and concurrent programming and provides a great mix...

F# 1.9 is seeing the rollout of a number of additions to the F# language, and this is the first of a series of blog entries on these.
For starters, the 1.9.2 release has seen the addition of "use" bindings. Here is a simple example:
let writePlayList...

We've posted a minor update to version 1.9.4 (called 1.9.4.19). The change notice is in the README and below. There are three fixes/changes in this release
Ø There was a glitch that prevented F# version 1.9.4.17 programs working well on Mono. A workarounds...

I recently posted a note to the F# list on how to get the effect of typeof(...) in F# code through the use of F#'s inline Common IL. The code I used has now been beautifully explained by Alejandro Serrano (who assures me he is a high-school student from...

Brian has blogged about some of the smaller features in the latest release of F# which weren't explicitly called out in the detailed release notes.
Error and warning messages have unique numbers (in particular replacing the ubiquitous "FS0191")...

Are you currently developing or maintaining a medium to large-sized program written in a functional language, such as Haskell, F#, OCaml, or Lisp? Chris Bogart is a PhD student doing a study of functional programmers, as part of a research internship...

The latest article from The F# Journal is on a topic I sometimes get asked about when talking to people doing low-latency financial trading systems:
Allocationless programming on .NET
"An extreme technique used in some latency-critical applications...

[ Update: Luca says the jobs are now filled ]
Luca Bolognese at Credit Suisse reports that they are now looking to hire 6 F# programmers to work on the new generation of trader tools in London and New York. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting...

[ Note: this particular position has now been filled - thanks! ]
A position has arisen within the Applied Games Team at MSR Cambridge for a Software Development Engineer (SDE). The role of the SDE will be to design, implement and maintain solutions...

Over on the F# team blog the Visual F# team have announced the availability of Visual F# 3.0 Beta now available in Visual Studio 11 !! The announcement is included below.
This release contains the new features described below, plus all the usual F#...

We like to say "F# loves R", because we can use R packages from F#, through an R type provider for F# .
We like to say "F# loves TypeScript", because we can use TypeScript Interface Definition Files from F#, through a TypeScript type provider for F#...

I'm glad to report that Robert Pickering's book Foundations of F# will be out soon. I'll be writing more on this soon - it was a pleasure to work with Robert and Jim Huddleston as technical editor on this book, and I'm sure you will find it a great entry...

Hi all,
An update to the F# 1.9.3 release has been posted to the Microsoft Research Downloads site. Additional changes between1.9.3.7 and 1.9.3.14 are:
Constructed classes may now be mutually recursive with other types, fixing an incompletness...

Ori Gershony in the Microsoft CLR team recently sent me a link to a job announcement for a position dedicated to working on Rotor , the shared source version of the Microsoft implementation of the ECMA Common Language Infrastructure . I've a soft spot...

I'd like to say a word of welcome to James Margetson , who has joined the F# team. James started with us at Microsoft Research in Cambridge a couple of weeks ago, and has a lot of experience with mixed functional/imperative programming from his days at...

I'm amazed how fast news travels in the world of blogging - an old colleague like Jonathan found out about this blog and posted some very positive comments about F# even while I thought it was still my little secret!

FunScript is “a lightweight F# library that lets you rapidly develop single-page web and mobile applications”.
This now has a nice new home page: http://funscript.info/
It is interesting because:
It compiles F# to JavaScript (see...

Back in 2007 Ralf Herbrich and co. wrote a research paper called " TrueSkill Through Time ". Their sample code was written with a pre-release of F# 1.0, and was not updated to F# in Visual Studio 2010.
Here is an update of this code for F# in Visual...

Luke Hoban is now full time as program manager on F#, and has just posted a short introduction about himself and the language :
...As of a few weeks ago, I've traded in my C# Compiler PM role for the newly created F# PM job! As you can probably...

The guys at Extreme Optimization have released version 4.0 of their .NET math library .
This time the library comes with 50 QuickStart samples for F#, including polynomials in F# , numerical integration in F# , optimization in F# , Fourier Transforms...